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Thursday, April 9, 2015

Claim blaming utility for devastating glacier melt in Peru may set landmark legal precedent

Claim blaming utility for devastating glacier melt in Peru may set landmark legal precedent

A Peruvian farmer who has watched glaciers melt "literally under his feet" is demanding that a German energy company compensate him for its role in causing climate change and putting his mountain village at risk of obliteration.
The figure at stake is admittedly paltry: €20,000, or about $21,800. But attorneys championing the claim say it could prove legally and politically groundbreaking by tying the actions of a carbon polluter directly to the risks of glacier lake flooding faced by the city of Huaraz.


http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060016270

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